Word: cuttingly
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...World leaders have accepted the principle that urgent action is needed to drastically cut back on carbon gas emissions if we are to even begin to address the problem. That's why they negotiated the Kyoto Protocol on climate change two years ago, requiring that the industrialized nations over the next decade reduce their output of carbon gases to 5 percent below the 1990 level. The U.S. is slated for a 7 percent reduction, on the basis that it is the greatest culprit, producing some 25 percent of all greenhouse gases despite housing only 4 percent of the world...
...latest round of talks, Washington had a new proposal - counting forests, which supposedly serve as "carbon sinks" by soaking up greenhouse gases, as part of a country's emission reductions. Indeed, the U.S. negotiators went in suggesting that the scale of U.S. forests was sufficient to cut its emission reduction target in half. Needless to say, the Europeans aren't having any of it, dismissing the proposals as a specious attempt to let the world's biggest polluter off the hook...
DVRs are fairly expensive, however, and as I have discovered, they are still a few bloopers short of a director's cut. There are two leading technologies competing for the market: TiVo, which is cheaper but charges a monthly fee, and ReplayTV, which is the one I've been living with for the past three weeks...
...Kyoto Protocol, endorsed by the Clinton administration, requires that by 2012, the industrialized nations will have cut their carbon gas emissions to 5 percent below their 1990 levels - the U.S., which accounts for at least one quarter of "greenhouse gas" emissions despite comprising only 4 percent of the world population, is slated for a 7 percent cut from 1990 levels. Reducing emissions, of course, is a painful process for industrialized nations, because it requires cutting back on coal-burning power stations and on the consumption of gasoline and other oil-based fuels. To understand the magnitude of that pain...
...Europeans think they have a problem with Washington, the OPEC countries may spring some nasty surprises. After all, for all the talk of win-win solutions in pioneering new technologies in the developing world, the losers in any move to cut back on fossil fuel consumption are inevitably going to be oil-producing countries. Nigeria has demanded financial compensation for oil-producing nations as part of any agreement to cut reliance on their leading export. And we all know how easily they can make their displeasure felt in an industrialized world still mostly dependent on their product...